Data Publication

Discrete Element Method model data of biaxial shear deformation

van den Ende, Martijn

GFZ Data Services

(2018)

Descriptions

Owing to their destructive potential, earthquakes receive considerable attention from laboratory studies. In friction experiments, stick-slips are studied as the laboratory equivalent of natural earthquakes, and numerous attempts have been made to simulate stick-slips numerically using the Discrete Element Method (DEM). However, while laboratory stick-slips commonly exhibit regular stress drops and recurrence times, stick-slips generated in DEM simulations are highly irregular. This discrepancy highlights a gap in our understanding of stick-slip mechanics, which propagates into our understanding of earthquakes. In this work, we show that regular stick-slips emerge in DEM when time-dependent compaction by pressure solution is considered. We further show that the stress drop and recurrence time of stick-slips is directly controlled by the kinetics of pressure solution. Since compaction is known to operate in faults, this mechanism for frictional instabilities directly relates to natural seismicity. The zip-fle contains a Python script (render_figures.py) that is used to generate the data fgures as reported by Van den Ende & Niemeijer (2018), auxiliary script fles in the scripts directory, and the original model data in ASCII and HDF format in the data directory. The main Python script fle render_figures.py will read and process the original model data and generate the interactive data fgures. These fgures are automatically saved in PDF format. More information is given in Van den Ende & Niemeijer (2018) to which these data and scripts are supplementary material to.

Keywords

MSL enriched keywords
Apparatus
deformation testing
shear testing
biaxial apparatus: direct shear
compression testing
biaxial compression apparatus
Measured property
friction - controlled slip rate
friction coefficient
rate and state friction (RSF) parameters
stress drop
strain
coupled mechanical-chemical effects
rate of pressure solution
Inferred deformation behavior
deformation behaviour
frictional deformation
microphysical deformation mechanism
time-dependent mechanism
pressure solution
Measured property
friction - controlled slip rate
friction coefficient
rate and state friction (RSF) parameters
stress drop
strain
MSL vocabulary keywords corresponding to originally assigned keywords
biaxial apparatus: direct shear
Originally assigned keywords
Discrete Element Method
Biaxial shear deformation
Stick-slip mechanics
EPOS
European Plate Observing System
multi-scale laboratories
rock and melt physical properties
deformation > shearing
EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS > EARTHQUAKES

Metadata


MSL enriched sub domains

rock and melt physics
analogue modelling of geologic processes

Resource Type

Dataset


Source


Source publisher

GFZ Data Services

DOI

10.5880/fidgeo.2018.008

Creators

van den Ende, Martijn
Personal
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0634-7078
Utrecht University

Contributors

van den Ende, Martijn
Personal
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0634-7078
Utrecht University
van den Ende, Martijn
Personal
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0634-7078
Utrecht University
van den Ende, Martijn
Personal
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0634-7078
Utrecht University
Experimental rock deformation/HPT-Lab (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Personal
e3a4f5d02528d02c516dbea19c20b32c
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
van den Ende, Martijn
Personal
Utrecht University

Citation

van den Ende, M. (2018). Discrete Element Method model data of biaxial shear deformation [Dataset]. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/FIDGEO.2018.008


References


Dates

Created 2018-02
Issued 2018

Language

en


Funding References

Funder Name Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Funder Identifier https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003246
Award Number 854.12.001
Award Title NWO Vidi
Funder Name H2020 European Research Council
Funder Identifier https://doi.org/10.13039/100010663
Award Number 335915
Award Title ERC Starter

Rights

Name Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
URI https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Identifier cc-by-4.0
Identifier Scheme SPDX
Scheme URI https://spdx.org/licenses/

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